The Olympic and Paralympic volunteer applicant pool has reached
730,000, reports the volunteer department of the Beijing Organizing
Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG).
The city volunteer program applicant pool has already surpassed
650,000.
Liu Jian, director of BOCOG's volunteer department, explained
that since the Beijing Olympic volunteer program launched in June
2006, it has branched into six volunteer working projects under the
theme "Smile Beijing", namely,?the "Towards Olympics"
Voluntary Service Project, the BOCOG Pre-Games Volunteer Project,
the Games-time Volunteer Project, the City Volunteer Project, the
Social Volunteer Project, and the Olympic Volunteer Work Legacy
Transformation Project.
The Olympic volunteer work has benefited from the active
participation and enthusiastic support of various sectors of
society.
And during the Good Luck Beijing sport events, approximately
30,000 volunteers took part in games-time and city volunteer
services.
(BOCOG November 15, 2007)